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Massachusetts boys The Curtis Mayflower released their critically acclaimed debut album, Everything Beautiful is Under Attack, back in January and it quickly became a favorite of mine. The Kickstarter funded project was recorded live in a New England farmhouse last year with the band committing to capturing each of the 11 tracks in one take. The resulting album is a collection of great...
Read MoreBy Richard Moses (therevue.ca) Today is throwback Thursday, and that tag would fit Central Massachusetts band The Curtis Mayflower quite well. As a band, The Curtis Mayflower is still in its early days, they released their first full length album, Everything Beautiful is Under Attack on January 28, 2014, but their sound is definitely a throwback to the late 60’s and early 70’s. The band is made...
Read More(via: bdcwire.com) By Perry Eaton Their name is an obvious nod to a late soul legend whose spirit lives on after death; their music is proof. Local quintet The Curtis Mayflower, which consists of session players who have worked and toured with the likes of Levon Helm, Booker T Jones, and Jim Carroll, is only about a year old, but has already released a live EP, and more recently, a debut...
Read More(via twangville.com) This is a heavy album that, while often dark and gloomy, is somehow incredibly energizing. What is particularly impressive is that this album arrives immaculately fully-fashioned from a group that just formed last year. And did I mention that most of their songs were written in the moment, essentially improvised? These guys ain’t messing around, they came to play. “Crawl No...
Read MoreThe Curtis Mayflower Everything Beautiful Is Under Attack via: (www.scenepointblank.com) The first studio release from The Curtis Mayflower titled Everything Beautiful Is Under Attack is a combination of talent, great songwriting, and beautiful haunting melodies. This is what happens when you take five of the best musicians from the Central Massachusetts area and send them up to an old...
Read More(via: www.dirtyimpound.com) What makes you tick, darling? What makes you sick, darling? Clockwork hearts have broken parts but there’s a fix, darling. Feel can’t be manufactured. A lot of other stuff can be faked or Pro-Tooled these days but feel, the essential intangible to really good music, only occurs naturally. It’s the thing that makes one’s hair stand up long before one understands why....
Read More(via: www.musicsavage.com) This past Saturday — January 25th, 2014 if you’re reading this at some point in the distant future — the world officially received one hell of an album. After a year of build up, The Curtis Mayflower finally let go of “Everything Beautiful is Under Attack” and watched as it spread across a packed room at Beatnik’s in Worcester. I realize “you can’t judge a book by it’s...
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(via www.telegram.com) Perhaps it’s best to start at the end, amid freezing cold hell fire and an unexpected sense of freedom, a razed battlefield of love where everyone ends up paying a price and the Devil inevitably gets his due. This is the note on which local supergroup The Curtis Mayflower ends its new album, “Everything Beautiful is Under Attack,” which the band will be...
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What’s not to like about a band that draws its name from the late, great Curtis Mayfield? These guys do the master proud with a collection of songs that are dark, brooding and full of soul. They’ve been generating quite a bit of buzz and their debut release more than lives up to the hype....
Read MoreBONUS ROUND: (via www.musicsavage.com/2013/12/2013-steves-top-albums-of-the-year/) THE CURTIS MAYFLOWER – EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IS UNDER ATTACK Each year, I’m lucky enough to hear a handful of albums before they actually get released to the public. This album was one of those for me in 2013. And it’s worked it’s way into my daily routine. Anytime you end up singing a song the minute you get out...
Read MoreWritten by Matt Robert · 12/19/2013 Photos: Steven King The January 2014 release of The Curtis Mayflower’s debut CD, “Everything Beautiful Is Under Attack,” will set a high mark early in the year for best CD, one which will undoubtedly raise the stakes by which area bands play. The Curtis Mayflower is the combined result of decades of individual work and commitment and an unlikely scene in an...
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Ryan Doyon at Music Savage got a sneak preview of the new album and here’s what he had to say. via: www.musicsavage.com The good news is that The Curtis Mayflower are putting the finishing touches on their upcoming, Kickstarter-funded, debut album Everything Beautiful is Under Attack. The great news is that the fundraising goal has been met. The even better news is that these hard working...
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